Rudy Wiebe

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Rudy Henry Wiebe (born October 4, 1934 in Speedwell near Fairholme, Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and the son of Mennonites of German descent who fled the Soviet Union in 1929 .

life and work

Wiebe grew up in southern Alberta . He studied medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton , then English literature and creative writing. A scholarship enabled him to study in Tübingen . After returning to Canada, he submitted his master's thesis, the novel Peace Shall Destroy Many , which was published in 1962. The novel critically describes the life of a fictional Mennonite community and led to the loss of his position as editor of a Mennonite weekly magazine.

From 1963 to 1967 he taught at Goshen College in Indiana, and later he became a professor of English literature at the University of Alberta .

Wiebe lives in Canada and writes novels , short stories and poetry . His stories and novels are about Mennonite and Canadian history.

In his 2001 novel Land Beyond Voices , Wiebe tells the story of the Franklin Expedition in 1819, the search for the Northwest Passage in the polar region. The novel won the 1994 Governor General's Award for Fiction , a major Canadian literary prize. He had already received this award in 1974 for The Temptations of Big Bear .

Plautdietsch , a West Prussian Low German, also called Mennonite Low German, is Plautdietsch 's mother tongue . Transcriptions into Plautdietsche of individual chapters from the novel The Blue Mountains of China have been published in the journal Plautdietsch FRIND .

In March 2008 Rudy Wiebe's childhood memories From this earth were published. For this book, Wiebe received the Charles Taylor Prize, a prestigious Canadian award for non-fictional literature. A chapter of this book was also published in translation in the journal Plautdietsch FRIND 2008.

In 2009, Wiebe's first novel was published under the title Friede will destroy many in high German translation.

bibliography

  • The scorched-wood people. 1977
  • Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest .
    • From this earth. A Mennonite childhood in the boreal jungle of Canada . Translated by Joachim Utz. Tweeback, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-98119781-5
  • The Angel of the Tar Sands. in Alberta: A Celebration . Hurtig, 1979
  • Chinook Christmas, in: Contemporary Canadian Short Stories. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990 (Series: Foreign Language Texts)
  • Posts in: Canada. Illustrated book. Translated by Johannes Kiebranz. Further texts by Alfred Pletsch, Klaus Viedebantt , photographs by Harald Mante . Bucher, Munich 1986 and others ISBN 3765808083
  • Contribution to: Where is the Voice coming from? McClelland & Stewart
    • The Enigmatic Voice, in: Modern Narrators of the World. Canada. Translated by Helfried Seliger. Ed. Walter E. Riedel. Erdmann-Verlag , 1976, pp. 319-330
  • River of Stone: Fictions and Memories.
  • Sweeter Than All the World.
  • Fruits of the Earth.
  • Peace Shall Destroy Many.
    • Peace will destroy many . Translated by Joachim Utz. Tweeback, Bonn 2009
  • My lovely enemy.
  • A Discovery of Strangers.
    • Land beyond the voices. Novel. Translated by Joachim Utz. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2001
  • The Blue Mountains of China .
    • Like poplars in the wind. Translated by Joachim Utz. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2004
  • Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman. (with Yvonne Johnson)
  • Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic .
  • War in the West: Voices of the North-West Rebellion. (with Bob Beal)
  • The Temptations of Big Bear. 2008
    • Big bear. A biographical essay. Translated by Joachim Utz. Tweeback, Bonn 2011

literature

  • Malin E. Sigvardson: Non-extensional movement in Rudy Wiebe's "The blue mountains of China", in Literary Environments. Canada and the old world. Edited by Britta Olinder. Peter Lang, Bern 2006 (Études canadiennes, 5) pp. 185 - 193
  • Janne Korkka: Ethical Encounters. Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe. Series: Cross / Cultures, 166. Rodopi , Amsterdam 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WJ Keith: Rudy Wiebe ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wiebe, Rudy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiebe, Rudy Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Speedwell at Fairholme, Saskatchewan